The Hunger Games is a good story in desperate need of a workable screenplay. An adaptation of the juggernaut young adult publishing phenomenon by Suzanne Collins, it’s yet another troubling entry in an increasingly long line of book-to-film translations – including Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and the Twilight sequels – that forsake narrative coherence, […]
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West Village Church [Church Profile]
Pastor Chris Synesael of West Village Church recently tweeted, “How many pastors get to watch Puss n’ Boots right before their Christmas Eve Service? #ChurchPlanting.” As my family and I entered through the movie theatre doors, we were welcomed into a lobby with West Village Church signs sitting tall among […]
It’s all about the Games [Book Review]
Spoiler warning! My best compliment and worst criticism of the highly acclaimed and awarded The Hunger Games trilogy is bound into one simple confession: I’m hungry for the Games. Call me a blood-thirsty, heartless, ‘Capitolesque’ snob, but all I want are the Games. They are what is truly unique about […]
Kony, Jason Russell, and Bad Press
With all the events surrounding the charity Invisible Children the past couple weeks, I am beginning to think that all press is not necessarily good press. Sometimes bad press is just bad press. The press, after all, was the horse that Invisible Children gallantly rode on in their quest for […]
One week. One tee. One cause.
Meet serial entrepreneur Dale Partridge, CEO and partner in the start-up company Sevenly. Launching out of a living room on June 13, 2011, it was barely one week later that the Sevenly team had grown to four, five, six, and now seven full-time staff. Partridge, at just 26 years old, […]
